70 years ago today – Christmas in Dundee!

A picture of the first Christmas tree in the City Square, taken from the Dundee Courier on 23rd December 1952 – 70 years ago today!

Taken from www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Image © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Image created courtesy of the British Library Board

DAERA publishes Rural Needs Annual Monitoring Report 2021 – 2022

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has today published the fifth Rural Needs Annual Monitoring Report.

Open Doors – our local libraries #dundeewestend

Further to the West End Open Doors information we posted earlier this week, local libraries including our own at Blackness Library welcome all residents – contact details below.

Please note community libraries close over the Christmas and New Year period – details at www.leisureandculturedundee.com/opening-hours

Avian Influenza Surveillance Zones lifted

Chief Veterinary Officer for Northern Ireland, Dr. Robert Huey, has announced that the Avian Influenza Surveillance Zones in County Fermanagh have now been lifted and movement restrictions removed.

November stocking of Departmental waters

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has stocked the following waters with takeable fish in November 2022: